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News headlines for “International Criminal Court”, page 272
Saudi Arabia's Ad Hoc Foreign Policy
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 20 (IPS) - If you are confused or baffled by Saudi Arabia's foreign policy moves over the past month or so, you are hardly alone. It appears the Saudis themselves don't know quite what to make of the various situations in which they find themselves.
How Israel Sank into the Quagmire of Apartheid
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 20 (IPS) - When one writes a book about Israel, one must expect that it will be analysed not for its quality but for its ideological bent.
And Now This Filthy Flood
- Inter Press Service
GAZA CITY, Dic 20 (IPS) - Wearing tattered shoes and hopping between dirty puddles, 14-year-old Sabeh manages to find his way to the market at the Al Shati refugee camp, one of Gaza's most heavily populated and poor areas.
Syrious Paralysis on Pennsylvania Avenue
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 20 (IPS) - Three months after averting a military strike against Syria with a last-minute deal to deprive it of its chemical weapons arsenal, U.S. policy toward the world's most violent conflict appears increasingly at sea.
Cameroonians Flee Atrocities in Central African Republic
- Inter Press Service
YAOUNDÉ, Dic 19 (IPS) - "We couldn't stand the violence anymore," said 27-year-old Baba Hamadou shortly after alighting from a chartered flight at the Douala International Airport earlier this week.
Q&A: “Libyan Women Were Handed Over as Spoils of War”
- Inter Press Service
TRIPOLI, Dic 19 (IPS) - Unless immediate changes are enforced, Libya is heading towards an "Afghan" model regarding women´s rights, Aicha Almagrabi, a Libyan writer and senior women rights activist, told IPS from her residence in Tripoli.
U.N. Advice to Aid Worker: Write Last Will Before Leaving Home
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Dic 18 (IPS) - When Anoja Wijeyesekera, an aid worker with the U.N. children's agency UNICEF, received her new assignment in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan back in 1997, her appointment letter arrived with a "survival manual" and chilling instructions: write your last will before leaving home.
When NATO Leaves Afghanistan
- Inter Press Service
JALALABAD,Afghanistan, Dic 18 (IPS) - Afghanistan's 30 million people are deeply divided over whether President Hamid Karzai should sign the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) with Washington that will allow U.S. military operations to continue in the conflict-ravaged country after NATO forces leave in 2014.
Guantanamo Transfers Hint at Momentum Towards Closure
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Dic 16 (IPS) - The U.S. government announced Monday it has repatriated two Saudi detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison, less than two weeks after two Algerian detainees were likewise sent back to their home country.
Syria, CAR top U.N.'s Challenges for 2014
- Inter Press Service
, Dic 16 (IPS) - As the ongoing crises in some of the world's hot spots - including Syria, the Central African Republic, Mali, Libya, Palestine and Darfur, Sudan - continue unabated, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Monday singled out some of the biggest challenges facing the international community in 2014.
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